Breast-cancer is the most common cancer to women. More regularly occurred to western society and rare little east to society (example in Japan, frequency desperately low). This cancer very seldom happened to age 25 years. It regularly begins after age 40-50 year and percentage further will increase with year increase.
Cause of the disease
Cause cancer as usual difficult to be decided. Exposed woman to rays radiation in such Hiroshima and Nagasaki has more than tendency to gain its. However there were other factors identified could be enhancing the risk:-
- Gender - that is more breast-cancer tends to happen on women with 95 percent of cases involve women
- Age further increased will be add more risk suffer from cancer involved
- Breast-cancer history individual that is if ever suffering cancer involved his risk repeat rise quadruple
- Family history and genetic factor especially among member next of kin
- Nutrition reputedly influence cancer rate between one country with any other country. Nevertheless, research showed relation between rates breast-cancer and nutrition were weak or never directly. Beverages recruitment alcoholic prove risk increase 1.4 until double.
- Fat women after menopause have a higher risk because fat containing estrogens
- Research showed no relation among lactation and breast-cancer. Breast focus research at Carolina in 1999 shows lactation lower little risk for breast-cancer among normal women. This study also reminds woman do not do lactation are only as protection to breast-cancer instead it must made because benefit to mother and baby.
80% is of the type Adenocarcinoma, which is originated from the glandular epithelium or mammary duct epithelium.
Symptoms & Signs
Cancer start to grow - several micrometer (could not be felt) until to the size of can be detected with hand examination (1 cm diameter) can take time until 5 years. 50% from cases blundered upon part quarter on senior of right breast and quarter on left of left breast.
This cell cancer could spread to different organs especially lungs (65%), heart (50%) and bone (50%). A sign that seems in the breast is:-
- Felt solid lump (with the hands). Need to be reminding that-no all lumps is cancer. Almost is the kind harmlessness and could be eliminated.
- Depression into the skin
- Submerged nipple
- Nipple draw liquid especially should bleed and coming from side breast only
- Breast swollen and seen spotty as orange peel
Other signs
- Solid lumps at armpit and neck
- Heart becomes larger
- Pain inside bone, backbone, easy tiredness when make light work, fatigue and weight-loss
